This Friday, the Congress of Deputies is voting on housing measures put forward by the Spanish government following Maricarmen’s eviction and the Sol campout. After Junts rejected and defeated both laws, Aragón President Jorge Azcón demanded immediate national elections.
Aragon’s rural sector has gone 25 years without going to the polls to elect its representatives. UAGA-COAG and representatives of the Provincial Agricultural Chambers of Zaragoza, Huesca and Teruel have called on the Government of Aragon to hold new agricultural elections to update representation that has remained virtually frozen since 2001.
Jorge Azcón has again defended his former Strategic Investments director, Marta Ríos. The Aragon president stressed that she held an interim position at MAZ between her time in the regional government and her new role at QTS Data Centers. He also said the Zaragoza executive will not work on the Calatorao data center campus because its development is “already complete”.
Chunta Aragonesista already has a candidate to lead its list for Huesca City Council in the May 2023 municipal elections. Sonia Alastruey, current coordinator of CHA-Huesca, will be number one after no other candidacy was submitted in the primaries process in the Alto Aragonese capital.
The director general of Housing for the Government of Aragón, María Pía Canals, has defended the region’s housing policies amid citizen protests. Canals summarized the regional government’s strategy as a “demanding agenda with a very clear roadmap”: more available housing, more people supported and more households able to build their lives in Aragón.
The Aragonese Party has begun preparing for the two 2027 elections. Its executive committee will meet on October 8 to set out the next steps, while the party is already contacting mayors and potential mayoral candidates to find out whether they want to run again. It will also explore a possible alliance with the People's Party, with which it maintains a "wonderful rapport."
Chunta Aragonesista on Monday called for greater public intervention in the housing market and demanded measures to facilitate access to housing both nationally and in Aragón. Its president, Jorge Pueyo, made the call during a meeting of the party’s National Committee held at its headquarters in Zaragoza.
The Government of Aragon has filed a legal challenge against the June 30 royal decree that increased the quota of unaccompanied foreign minors assigned to Spain’s autonomous communities, setting Aragon’s quota at 476. It argues that the unilateral decision encroaches on regional powers and was adopted without any objective criteria.
Chunta Aragonesista will hold a primary election to choose its candidate for mayor of Zaragoza. The deadline to submit endorsements closes this Monday, and two candidates have secured the more than 10% required: Chuaquín Bernal and Luis Pastor. The party’s leader in Zaragoza and the former councillor for Sports will compete for the position in a vote scheduled for this Friday, October 2.
Protests over difficulties accessing housing have intensified in recent days following Maricarmen’s eviction, which led to a camp being set up in Puerta del Sol. In response to the public mobilization, Aragón President Jorge Azcón blamed the Spanish government: “Responsibility lies with those sitting on the Council of Ministers.”
More than 150 Chunta Aragonesista members gathered this Sunday at Zaragoza’s Ebro Sports Park for the 11th CHA-Zaragoza Militancy Festival. The event was attended by the party’s president and spokesperson in the Aragonese Parliament, Jorge Pueyo, and CHA-Zaragoza president Chuaquín Bernal, along with representatives and members from various municipalities in the Central Comarca.
PSOE Aragón Secretary-General Pilar Alegría accused regional President Jorge Azcón on Saturday of having 'destroyed' the culture of dialogue, pacts and agreements that she said had defined the region for decades. Alegría made the remarks after a meeting of the PSOE Aragón Interparliamentary Group in Zaragoza, attended by regional and provincial lawmakers, national parliamentarians and the Socialist MEP to coordinate the party's work for the new political year.
Tomasa Hernández announced Friday that she is resigning as a PP lawmaker for Teruel province in the Aragon regional parliament. Her party said the decision was due to “professional reasons.”
After a plenary session focused on data centers, in which Jorge Azcón explained his opposition to the Spanish government's royal decree, the Aragon Parliament will hold a new session of questions to the regional government this Friday. The president of Aragon will address decisions made by members of his government, demand for land, water and energy from major consumers, and the application of the rural development law in the budget.
The decree on data centers has reached the Aragonese Parliament. Regional President Jorge Azcón has reiterated that it puts €70 billion in investment in technology infrastructure at risk, as none of the projects would meet the environmental requirements.
The Aragon parliament has rejected a study commission on data centers after PP and Vox voted against investigating their benefits, impacts and harm to municipalities.
The plenary session of the Aragonese Cortes on Thursday took another step toward the 2027 Budget, whose negotiation will begin after the Pilar festivities. The spending cap, set at €8.398 billion, was approved with votes in favor from the PP and Vox, abstentions from the PSOE and Teruel Existe, and votes against from CHA and IU.
Aragon's vice president, Mar Vaquero, said that no information subject to confidentiality rules in the Riglos wildfire case or concerning the suspect was shared.
The Government of Aragón will take in minors from Ceuta following the mass influx because it will comply with the law, as Aragón Vice President Mar Vaquero said. However, she assured that they would also use all legal means to ensure that these migrants return to their place of origin, as they had already been doing.
Chunta Aragonesista has called for greater regulation of data center development in Aragon amid the growth of such projects in the region. The party considers the regulatory proposal promoted by the Spanish Government “unambitious” and “too vague” to address issues including water and energy consumption, land use, economic returns and digital sovereignty.
